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Artist
Sylvia Rexach
10+ albums
boleropuerto rico
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Sylvia Rexach (January 22, 1922 – October 20, 1961), was a poet, singer and composer of romantic music. Early years: Rexach was born and raised in Santurce, Puerto Rico. There she attended public school and received her primary education. She then went to a private school where she finished her secondary education before attending the Central High School of Santurce. During her high school years, when she was 14 years old, she wrote several poems which were to become part of her musical compositions. She amazed her teachers when she composed "Di, Corazón" (Tell me, Heart) and "Matiz de Amor" (Calm Love). Sylvia Rexach also learned how to play musical instruments, such as the guitar, the piano and the saxophone at a young age. World War II Rexach enrolled in the University of Puerto Rico where she was going to take a pre-legal course, however when the United States entered World War II in 1942, Sylvia Rexach dropped-out of the university and joined the United States Army as a member of the WACS (Women Army Corps Service) where she served as an office clerk. Post WW II : In 1945, after Rexach was honorably discharged from the armed forces, she went to New York. There she met and married William Riley with whom she had three children, including Puerto Rican actress/singer, Sharon Riley. The marriage went through a crisis and eventually they were divorced. After her divorce, she returned to Puerto Rico where she went to work for a radio station as a comical
